TalkTalk Data Breach – How to Protect Yourself

The news emerged on Friday that TalkTalk – the national broadband supplier – has suffered a “significant and sustained” cyber-attack. If you are a TalkTalk customer, here are the key points you need to protect yourself.

The latest in a string of high-profile hackings of consumer companies, the lastst breach at TalkTalk sees a reported 4 million customer account details stolen.

Do I Need To Back Up Data That’s Already In The Cloud?

The computing world is forever changing. Over the last 15 years, SaaS (software as a service) providers have offered the convenience of data backup for your cloud applications such as CRM systems, SalesForce, Google Apps and Microsoft 365. The business question is, if I’m already working with a SaaS provider and my data is already “in” the cloud, do I really need to back up my data to another cloud? After all, isn’t the SaaS provider doing that for me?

Well, yes and no.